DATE:25:11:2019

Assignment # 1

Subject : Computing fundamental

Registration # 2016-ch-455

UET Lahore ( FSD Campus )

Why world need IPV6?
IPv6 deployment higher on its to-do list. Here are six specific reasons:

Prevent Increased Costs: Companies will need to spend more to cope with the scarcity of
IPv4 addresses, whether it’s in workarounds, buying networking gear or trying to buy
more IPv4 addresses. The fact is, it is more expensive if you don’t plan for it.
Prevent Disruption to Your Websites: Businesses that do not commit to IPv6 transition,
and do not start to take the proper steps to initiate this process now, will risk
accessibility problems of their websites and other Internet-connected locations and
services. A recent McKinsey Global Institute Internet Matters report claimed that 75
percent of the economic value produced by the Internet benefits traditional industries,
not Internet-based enterprises, indicating that this could present a significant disruption
to business on a broader level.
Growth of Your Global Business Depends on It: Some parts of the world are completely
out of new IPv4 addresses, including emerging economies that are experiencing the
most economic growth. The use of IPv6 will soon be a requirement for companies
looking to tap into these growth opportunities. In fact, it will soon be a requirement for
government agencies as well, since a 2010 mandate requires all federal websites and e-
government services to support IPv6 on their public-facing Web services by September
30, 2012. This mandate extends to all internal, operational networks by September 30,
2014.
Avoid Diminishing Experience for Your Customers and Access to Your Supply Chain:
If the IPv6 transition happens as expected, most users won’t notice any change in their
Internet use, but those that are still operating on IPv4 will have a diminished experience
sooner or later.
Ready to Deploy Today: IPv6 has been in development for 20 years. Initial work on the
next generation of Internet Protocol began in 1992 and on June 8, 2011, more than one
thousand websites around the world, including Google, Facebook and Yahoo! enabled
IPv6 for 24 hours in support of “World IPv6 Day.” Today, IPv6 is ready to be launched
for broad adoption and permanent enablement on June 6, 2012. More than 1,500
companies - including websites, ISPs and router vendors - have committed to make IPv6
permanently “on by default” for their products and services.
Your Competitors are Doing It: Major Internet Service Providers, home networking
equipment manufacturers and Web companies around the world are coming together to
permanently enable IPv6 for their products and services by June 6, 2012, known as
“World IPv6 Launch.” Already ISPs in 22 countries and more than 2,000 websites,
including four of the top five rated websites (Google.com, Facebook.com, Yahoo.com
and YouTube.com) will be turning on IPv6. This will result in a significant increase in
Internet traffic using IPv6.
Organizations that continue to rely solely on IPv4 with no plans to implement IPv6 in
the near future risk running into a host of business challenges, from increased costs and
limited website functionality, to inhibiting critical growth opportunities in emerging
markets and beyond. The only long-term solution to this shortage, and subsequent
business disruptions, is adoption of IPv6, providing a practically unlimited number of
addresses.
Of course, deployments of this magnitude are not undertaken lightly – there is a very
strong motivation: there are not as many Internet addresses in the current version of the
Internet Protocol (IPv4) as there are people on the planet, and we are running out of
addresses. Without new addresses, the Internet as we know it - a platform for realizing
innovation and building new services and applications - cannot grow to connect more
people and devices. Without a new way forward, billions of people will never get to use
new Internet services and applications that are on the drawing boards of today’s
companies and in the imaginations of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.

There is no question that we are running out. In February 2011, the last block of the 4.3
billion IPv4 addresses were assigned from the global supply to the Regional Internet
Registry organizations which, as their name implies, are the not-for-profit organizations
that manage the allocation and registration of Internet addresses within regions of the
world. Today, there is no remaining IPv4 address space to be distributed in the Asia
Pacific region, and IPv4 address space is expected to run out in Europe this year, in the
U.S. next year, and in Latin America and Africa in 2014.

Luckily, the solution to this problem is already at hand. To enable the Internet’s
continued growth, companies must deploy IPv6, the protocol the Internet Engineering
Task Force (IETF) - the group that sets standards for the Internet - began developing 20
years ago and which is now ready for business. IPv6 provides more than 340 trillion,
trillion, trillion addresses that will enable the Internet to grow, for all practical purposes,
indefinitely.

If this is so important, and the solution has been available for so long, why has there
been so little progress before now?

Despite years of discussions around the imminent shortage in IPv4 addresses, only 12
percent of businesses had started planning for the transition as of 2011. In fact, six
percent of businesses indicated they had no awareness of IPv6 at all, according to a
recent survey. It has long been said that “there is no business case” for deploying IPv6 –
companies see it as an expense with no associated increase in revenue. Another reason
might be that companies believe they can get by with interim work-arounds. Yet it is
becoming increasing clear that the long-term overall cost of not deploying IPv6 is more
costly to both individual companies looking to grow and to the global Internet as a
whole.

All of that highlights the leadership of the organizations that are stepping up together for
the World IPv6 Launch on June 6. With top global websites turning on IPv6
permanently and almost 50 access networks turning it up as a regular service, IPv6 will
be “the new normal”.